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I'm Shemita Basu.

Today, a day in the life of a Palestinian family under occupation. The year was 2012 in the occupied West Bank. A little Palestinian boy named

Milad was looking forward to his first ever class field trip.

The day of the trip, he woke up early.

Put on his school uniform, scarf down his breakfast,

who ran out the door. This is author Nathan Thrall. And he went with all the other

kindergartners at his school in the town of Anatta, which is partly annexed by Israel, so partly inside municipal Jerusalem, partly not.

Milat's father, Abed, was still asleep when the boy left the house. Later that morning he gets a call from a

friend who tells him there's been an accident on the road his son's bus was

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